A Critique of the Claim of Mulla Sadra's Accepting the Theory of Considering Revelation as Vision

In some positions in his articles and in order to explain the basis of regarding revelation as vision, Dr. Soroush, claims that Mulla Sadra’s interpretation of the initial verses of Surah al-Vaghe’a and his emphasis on the realization of the Resurrection in the present time, confirms Sadra's belief in this theory. The present study reviews this claim under the two rubrics of Mulla Sadra's views on revelation and his views on the truth of the Resurrection. Mulla Sadra's revelation studies confirms that not only has he not acknowledged regarding revelation as vision in any of his views and beliefs about revelation, but he has emphasized that revelation has a verbal and oratorical reality. Of course, his main concern in this matter is to explain the quality of the physical nature of the process of revelation, including the nature of the relationship between the Prophet and the Angel of Revelation in the physical and sensible aspect of the revelation. But regarding Mulla Sadra's affirmation of the realization of the Resurrection in the present time, it should be noted that, in contrast to Dr Soroush's claim, Mulla Sadra has considered the time of the Major Resurrection as ambiguous. He has drawn a distinction between the Minor Resurrection and Major Resurrection and merely referred to the realization of the Minor Resurrection. In fact, what Mulla Sadra believes in is the Minor Resurrection, which Dr Soroush doesn’t believe in, and what Dr. Soroush refers to in his sixth articles (the Major Resurrection) is not approved by Mulla Sadra.